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Sunday, August 10, 2008

RIP Skip Caray

By Rick Morris

EDIT: This idiocy with YouTube and the corporations that are suppressing web videos willy-nilly is getting out of hand. Somebody, somewhere, I can only surmise that it was with Turner Sports, got the wonderful Ernie Johnson tribute video pulled from YouTube that I had previously embedded. God forbid that the green eyeshades jerks who are policing copyright violations make an exception for an inspiring tribute to a man's life. Shame on whoever the cretins were that were responsible for this outrage.

Growing up when I did, during a period of time when the Atlanta Braves were becoming “America’s Team” on SuperStation TBS, I spent a lot of time watching their games on TV and listening to their broadcast crew.A fixture on that team for 33 years was Skip Caray and it was with great sadness that I learned of his passing this week at age 68.

This great tribute that Turner Sports aired this past week says it all.In Ernie Johnson’s stirring on-air eulogy, he notes that Skip was very much his own man as a broadcaster notwithstanding being the son of one of the most famous men in the business in Harry Caray.It was just over a decade ago that the game of baseball lost Harry’s distinctive contributions and now, much more shockingly, Skip’s voice has been stilled as well.RIP Skip Caray.